Colorapi is a slick webapp that serves one purpose: To help people choose color palettes according to general ideas by using photos. Using the webapp is as simple as entering a search term for whatever you want the color schemes to be inspired by, like summer. It returns a grid of Flickr photos matching that term (with pretty high relevancy), along with swatches made up of their dominant colors. Basically, you don't have to feel so lost when you're looking at something and thinking "I want the color scheme for this to be... like pecan pie."

The number of colors in each swatch can be adjusted from the basic 6, all the way to 12, and are downloadable as Adobe Swatch Exchange (ASE) files. Every color in a swatch set is also labeled with either RGB or hexadecimal values, with HSL and HSV as additional options for the dabbling professionals out there.